June 2008

Does Happiness come at a cost?

Does Happiness Have A Cost? By Christopher Peterson, Ph.D. June 13, 2008 in The Good Life Do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way and in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness. -Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872), The Possessed Positive psychology theory and research have helped...

Happiness and business

Have you ever asked yourself: "Is this as good as it gets?" Do you ever think that life and work should be more fun and more fulfilling? Would you like to have less stress and more happiness in your life? Well I"m here to tell...

JK Rowling on happiness and success

Harvard, Hogwarts & Commencement Thoughts By Caroline Miller Positive Psychology News Daily, NY (Caroline Miller) - June 9, 2008 Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP, ACC is a performance coach, author and motivational speaker who specializes in helping people design and achieve their life goals. Last...

Happiness at work, engagement and staff satisfaction

As the economy slows, the question of how to motivate and retain staff is becoming increasingly difficult for entrepreneurs. With sales and profits sliding, there is little spare cash for financial incentive schemes and big bonus payments. A recent SmartCompany poll revealed 30% of businesses...

Happiness at work, engagement and staff satisfaction

Two great happiness quotes

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. - Morrie Schwartz And my happiness translation...

The Cheat’s Guide to Happiness

For an interesting article on happiness, summarising the recent Happiness & it's Causes Conference - click here ...

Happiness, health and stress

Index of happiness and stress finds links with health issues BY FRANK GREVE ê¢__‘Ô¢ MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS ê¢__‘Ô¢ June 11, 2008 WASHINGTON -- The Gallup Organization and a health industry partner now offer a detailed daily measure of U.S. happiness and stress that you can look up on...

Finding Happiness through forgiveness

Positive psychology coaching focuses much of its efforts on highlighting and emphasising the good in life; but it also recognises that bad things happen and so to really experience the deeper and more meaningful forms of happiness we also need to resolve the wrongs in...

Happiness, money and giving

Happiness is a $58m question HeraldSun.com.au Mirko Bagaric June 09, 2008 SO what should the lucky $58 million Powerball winners do to benefit most from the windfall and make the world a better place? The answer is not as obvious as it seems. But much of it rests in...